The ConnectedFactories project develops pathways towards advanced digitisation of manufacturing processes from different perspectives. These perspectives can be seen as different application areas. The pathways have been built on the national and regional workshops (WP2).
The first project period resulted in the initial versions of the following pathways and the start of the mapping of projects and their results on these pathways
• The Autonomous Smart Factories pathway: with a focus on intra-factory manufacturing automation and optimisation, including advanced human-in-the-loop workspaces.
• The Hyperconnected Factories pathway: with a focus on networked enterprises in complex, dynamic supply chains and value networks
• The Collaborative Product-Service Factories pathway: with a focus on data-driven product-service engineering in knowledge intensive factories
Important cross-cutting factors and key enablers have to be addressed in these scenario’s.
Work package 5 provides some additional focus on essential cross-cutting factors standardisation, skills, business model, security, throughout the project. Also links with other programmes (focus of WP6) contributes to addressing cross-cutting factors and technologies (for example by establishing a cooperation with the Cyber-security PPP and the related ECSO association or with the Big Data Value Association, the ECSEL JU, etc...).
The set of key cross-cutting factors are being maintained while taking into account intitiatives such as the RAMI4.0 Adminstration Shell and the work within the Industrial Internet Consortium.
